Sairento VR
Sairento VR 0.9.0 Update!
Here's a major update with a whole list of bug fixes and improvements before we come out of Early Access on 6 Feb! You will be pleased to see upgrades to calibrations (long limbs!), controls, navigation, maps, AI, recording and more.
Also, we have included 2 new guides -
An Effective Gameplay, Tips and Hints Guide for those of you who want to know how to use your weapons like deadly ninjas -
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1273197299
A Maps Guide that discusses the different locations -
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1273122264
Enjoy!~
## v0.9.0p1 (2018-01-22) - Build 108
- Added accessibility option : Reload shake sensitivity.
- Updated Long Limbs mode to have longer arms. Player model texture has also been updated to only show hands.
- Map modifier fixes.
- Pathfinding fix for cemetary gate.
## v0.9.0 (2018-01-19) - Build 107
- Added Gameplay option to render third person view instead of VR view on the game window.
- Added more recording quality options.
- Added control option to disable Sticky Grip for players who prefer holding down Grip to hold a weapon.
- Added control option : Sticky Secondary Grip.
- Added Long Limbs mode in calibration - allows longer arms but disables player model.
- Added arrow to direct player in the direction of the extraction zone when done.
- Added touchpad locomotion walk animation for third person view
- Improved Touch controller snap rotation responsiveness.
- Updated training sim/tutorial.
- Updated Street, Train, Arena, Corporation.
- Enemies now have a small delay before alerting their allies if they spot the player.
- Kunoichi's traps now also glitches your vision for 3 seconds when triggered.
- Lowered max touchpad locomotion speed as there were physics clipping issues at high speeds.
- Fix for slide height not being set correctly in subsequent plays.
- Fix for gore/dismemberment not being set correctly.
- Fix for slide spark particles not stopping on changing scenes until you slide again.
- Fix for missing out of bounds detection for Street map.
- Fix for show player model texture not being set correctly after calibration.
- Fix for procedural level spawn directions.
- Fix for Greed relic values.
- Multiplayer : Fixed XP not being awarded correctly to party members.
- Multiplayer : Fixed enemies targeting.
Some Good News and A Bad One
Hi Ninjas,
We have some good news and bad news to announce.
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First the good.
We have published a long overdue Quickstart Manual for new Sairento players and a series of more comprehensive guides for those who are interested in relic stats and skills.
The Quickstart Manual can be found here -
http://store.steampowered.com/manual/555880
The more advanced Guides can be found here -
http://steamcommunity.com/app/555880/guides/
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Now the bad.
We are very very very very sorry but we have decided to push back the exit from Early Access until 6 February 2018 and with it the Campaign Mode for the following reasons.
- We want to improve the game even more
- There are still some bugs left to catch
- We want to make the AI smarter
In short, we could bring the game out of EA with the faults we are seeing, or we could give it a little bit more time and give you a much better game.
This also impacts our launch on Oculus Home which may come a little later as we need to spend more time testing the game on the platform.
We would like to apologize unreservedly and sincerely for the delay, but know that it is for a good reason and we are working round the clock to bring you a great experience.
We hope for your kind understanding.
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But here's another piece of good news.
On the 19th - which we originally slated to come out of EA - we would be pushing out an update which would hopefully compensate some for the delay in the launch.
It will include a plethora of things that many of you guys have been asking for:
- Tons of bug fixes
- More level variety
- More recording options
- More improvements to stealth AI
- Mirroring a third person view to the screen
- Better calibration process
- Improved Touch control integration and support (you can now toggle sticky grip and grip to hold)
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Once again, we apologize sincerely for having to postpone the exit from Early Access. We hope we can have your kind blessing and understanding for doing this.
Sincerely,
The Sairento VR Team
Christmas Comes Early (0.8.0p5 Released)!
Fellow ninjas, today marks one whole year since Sairento VR was first released into Early Access. A huge thanks goes to the players that have stuck by us from our humble beginnings (you know who you are), and have been so helpful with filing bug reports and giving suggestions. We are glad to have players as passionate in playing our game as we are in crafting it.
Today we take the Sairento experience a step further with two new maps and a third person recording system, which many of you have been clamoring for since our early days. We look forward to seeing all the cool videos you guys can come up with.
Check out the nifty trailer we've put together to showcase the warped beauty and serenity of how enemies are taken out in Sairento using the recording system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MjMIUb_NX0
If you haven't heard already, we will be releasing the campaign in January. It will be a fairly short and concise experience that will introduce you to the lore of Sairento - as well as set the stage for more to come.
## v0.8.0p5 (2017-12-29) - Build 106
A quick patch before our team goes off for the weekend break. We look forward to bringing you even more content in 2018!
- Fixed enemies being unable to be staggered while in an unalerted state.
- Fix for enemy kills being broadcasted twice in certain situations, causing enemy count to be incorrect.
## v0.8.0p4 (2017-12-28) - Build 105
- Added LIV Client support (http://store.steampowered.com/app/755540/LIV_Client/).
- Added extended trails for Artemis and Sniper bullets.
- Increased max player model calibration size.
- Modified bullet textures.
- Fixed a bug with Focal Cast arrows not returning to player if shot too quickly into enemies.
- Fixes for mixed reality alpha channel view.
## v0.8.0p3 (2017-12-27) - Build 104
- We've tested the TPCast (wireless receiver for Vive/Oculus) with Sairento and it works great!
- Updated Sumo : the tubes on their back are now a point of vulnerability.
- Extensive damage to it will cause it to explode and kill the Sumo.
- Increased Artemis bullet speed from 300 to 700.
- Fixed bug where Sumo spawning would create an issue with the number of enemies left.
- Fixed bug where Sumo dying would sometimes cause a runtime error.
- Fixed spawn table bug where snipers would spawn more frequently than normal.
- Fixed BGM track selector not showing the current track name until you change it.
- Navigation mesh fixes for Hall and Shrine.
- Other minor bugfixes.
## v0.8.0p2 (2017-12-26) - Build 103
- Added BGM track selector on wrist menu.
- Lowered sniper's laser target point from your head to general chest area.
- Boosted total enemy count in multiplayer modes.
- Fix for Touch controls not working correctly on non master hand.
- Fix for game recording crashing if player dies.
- Fix for incorrect spawn direction in the Train map.
- Fix for ceiling colliders on the train map.
- Fix for Operations not refreshing if you played all the missions but failed one or more high risk missions.
- Fix for density multipliers not applying in Elimination mode.
- Navigation mesh fixes for the Observatory and Shrine.
## v0.8.0p1 (2017-12-22) - Build 102
- Additional fixes for Hardlight suit integration.
- Performance improvements for all procedural maps.
## v0.8.0 (2017-12-21) - Build 101
- Added map : Street. The Street level is now procedural.
- Added new map : Alley.
- Updated Shrine map.
- Added training sim tutorial.
- Added gameplay recording feature
---- Added a recording submenu to your wrist menu (available in game levels only)
---- Change recording resolution and framerate in Options > Integrations
---- A GTX1080 or equivalent is recommended
---- Note that the game performance will be impacted while recording.
---- A lower render scale is recommended if you experience lag while recording.
---- Recorded video will be saved to Documents\Sairento VR Videos\
---- Animations for touchpad locomotion not supported as of yet
- Skill change : Heightened Senses is now a default ability that works up to 5m.
---- The first node of Heightened Senses doubles that distance to 10m.
- Updated dojo layout.
- Updated calibration scene. There's now less guesswork involved and you will be able to configure your height in a more visual manner.
- Kunoichi has received a buff - when breaking invisibility, she attacks immediately instead of after a short delay.
- Updated player's inverse kinematics.
- Updated Artemis scope.
- Dead bodies will now raise suspicion levels if anyone spots them.
- Removed Sniper's stun immunity. He now flinches and loses targetting if hit.
- CPU optimizations.
- When connecting to multiplayer, you now connect to the last joined region.
- Fixed Hardlight suit integration with runtime 1.0.5.
- Fixed Purge map mode using the wrong descriptions.
- Fixes for AI.
- Fix for enemy silhouettes staying at orange but not ever turning red.
- Fixes for multiplayer.
Sairento VR's Full Release Date Confirmed!
Sairento VR is coming out of the woods from Early Access and doing a simultaneous launch on the Vive and Oculus on 19 January 2018!
With the launch, the story campaign mode will be available to play! It adds on a narrative element to the world of Sairento, and sets the stage for... shall we say, much bigger plans we have in store down the road.
An early version of our game play recording feature where you can see yourself play in 3rd person perspective glory (with thanks again to the guys at Pryde VR ) will soon be included as well. You can access the record button on your wrist menu. More options to control the angle and flow of the recording will come soon.
Thank you once again to all our fans for being so supportive of the work we've been doing. While the release marks the 1.0 version of Sairento, know that we have more fixes and content lined up in the coming months to make this game an even more definitive version of the one true VR ninja experience.
Meanwhile, enjoy this new trailer we've made with a sneak preview of the story mode, a 3rd person perspective recording and more glorious ninja mayhem!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3jXqjhWefE&t=13s
Sneak Peek : Gameplay Recording
We're still finetuning the gameplay record feature (a big thanks to the fine and helpful folks over at PrydeVR), but the following gif will give you a good idea of what it'll look like.
https://gfycat.com/FloweryUniqueGermanshepherd
With that said, there are some caveats that we hope to address at a later stage - touchpad locomotion, jumping, and wallrunning are lacking lower body animations at the moment (your crouch state is based on height calibration and whether you are crouching in the playarea).
Sairento VR 0.7.0p4
## 0.7.0p4 (2017-11-29) - Build 96
- Enemies now spot you less quickly on lower difficulties.
- Enemies now have an alertness icon that enlarges and turns more red as they grow more aware of the player.
- Fixed Observatory on the mission map spawning with the incorrect game mode (doors can't be opened).
- Fixed enemy silhouettes not resetting to the correct color on occassion.
- Fixed more dual wield skill bugs.
### Added relics ###
- (Pistol) Silent Sting : Reduces Stinger's sound radius and increases its stealth damage multiplier.
- (Rifle) Overwatch : Reduces Artemis's sound radius. When the scope is brought to eye level, Acceleration is automatically activated.
## 0.7.0p3 (2017-11-28) - Build 95
- Increased stealth damage multiplier from x3 to x6
- Reduced disturbance sound radius from melee, projectiles, and unarmed combat to 1m
- Added max allocation button for prestige points in the skill panel
- Fixed incorrect starting play area rotation in Observatory
- More level collider fixes
## 0.7.0p2 (2017-11-27) - Build 94
- Navigation mesh, collider fixes for Observatory
- Fixes for enemies getting stuck at doorways occassionally
- Relic fixes
## 0.7.0p1 (2017-11-23) - Build 93
- Added stealth kill flair text.
- Reduced noise of melee, projectile, and unarmed kills.
- Reverted and modified sniper laser. It now fades in when locking in, together with a high pitch whine as an audio cue.
- Performance improvements for Observatory.
- Enemy navigation mesh fixes for Corporation, Observatory, and Hall.
- Fixed "Open Again" button showing for co-op mission rewards.
- Fixed Sumo's silhouette being always red (alert color).
- Fixed Blade Wave only working with one weapon when dual wielding.
## 0.7.0 (2017-11-10) - Build 92
Fresh off the stove - the latest update brings in several cool new things.
First up, you can now identify the attentiveness of your foes through the color of their silhouette, unlocked by having at least 1 point in the Heightened Senses skill tree.
Unsuspecting enemies will be in gray. They have a reduced cone of vision and will slowly wander through the environment. They will become cautious (yellow) if they hear a noise (e.g gunfire or the death of an ally). This progresses to suspicious (orange) if the events persist or they spot a glimpse of the player. They will begin chasing down the last known position of the player. Finally, an alerted (red) enemy has seen the player and will hunt them down ruthlessly. Attacks against an unsuspecting or cautious enemy deal more damage.
Additionally, we've expanded our roster of maps with 2 new levels : the Arena and the Observatory. The Arena is a wide open platform over a body of water, perfect for a good old fashion, last man standing brawl. The Observatory is a procedural map, taking you through several claustrophobic hallways and rooms, where combat gets close and personal.
Snipers have gotten a quality of life change, and their targeting laser lock-on effect is much more visible now no matter where they are. You are now also able to dodge the shots if you time your dodges right. To balance this, snipers no longer flinch when attacked.
The Geisha's close range cyclone has been tweaked as it did not allow for fun and complex melee play near her. She now telegraphs an area of attack with a red cyclone, damaging the player if they remain within the zone after a brief period of time.
Read more about these changes and more in the full changelog below :
- Added new map : Arena
- Added new map : Observatory
- Operations tab renamed to Missions tab.
- You can toggle between the legacy map view and the Operations system.
- Map missions are one-off missions that do not have completion bonuses from the Operations.
- Added stealth kill system
- Attacks while an enemy is in an unalerted state deals 200% more damage.
- Killing enemies will alert enemies to your current location.
- Upon spotting you, enemies will shift to an alerted state.
- All weapons apart from melee and projectile weapons are considered as noisy and will alert enemies.
- When using Heightened Senses, unalerted enemies will be highlighted in gray, cautious in yellow, suspicious in orange, and alerted in red.
- Suspicious enemies will return to a cautious state if they are unable to find the player.
- The statue in the dojo now serves as a DPS test dummy.
- For each jump, you can only rotate your play area once. This is to avoid compounding inaccuracy in positioning that arise from multiple rotations.
- Updated Sniper's lockon effect - it is now immediately more obvious when they are targetting you. 9 lines will converge about you into one line to
signify that they have a lock on.
- Updated Geisha's close range attack
- Updated Hall map
- Updated music tracks
- Sniper is now slightly more proactive and less likely to camp in one spot for an extended period of time.
- Fixes for co-op voice chat.
- Fixed missing visual effects on Kunoichi's trap.
- Fixed wrist menu placement when holding something in that hand.
- Fixed dual wielding damage calculation bug.
- Fixed player jittering on the ground on occasion.
Triple Kill VR Bundle
We have struck a collaboration with the game developers of Eternity Warriors VR™ and ZomDay to offer one of the coolest VR gaming bundles ever. You can now purchase all three or - any one of these games if you already own the other two - at a 15% discount. We are calling it the ‘Slash Stab Shoot Triple Kill’ Bundle.
In choosing games to bundle with, we make sure that partnering developers share common beliefs in delivering a high quality VR gaming experience and that they continually improve their game. Both the makers of Eternity Warriors VR™ and ZomDay exhibit these qualities and their games' positive ratings speak for themselves.
All three games are among the most popular action VR games on Steam. Another common point is that they are all multiplayer games, offering players the opportunity to play with or against friends.
Whether it is performing the coolest kills ever as a ninja, mowing down hoards of zombies or fighting creatures from hell; there is definitely something for everyone to scratch that VR action gaming itch. This bundle is a great starting point for those who are just getting into VR, or looking for some new VR experiences at a great price.
So if you already own Sairento VR, this is your chance to buy 2 other great VR games at a discount!
http://store.steampowered.com/bundle/5418/TRIPLE_KILL_VR_Bundle/
Sairento VR 0.6.3p3
- Added a button to open/craft items from the armory again.
- Improved backflip arc, height, and pushback force.
- Improved bounds checking and play area repositioning when using room rotation while in a jump or wallrunning.
- Increased chances of rolling a High Risk mission across the board.
- Changes to Battojutsu : now disables if you cannot sustain the chakra cost.
- Changed UI pointer to only originate from master hand, due to UI event issues when having two pointers on screen.
- Fixed UI bug allowing you to repeat High Risk missions after failing them.
- Fixed muzzle flashes lagging behind the firing point of the gun while moving.
- Fixed Assassination mode phase UI bug.
- Fixed swords being drawn in reverse grip if you switched to it with something else in hand.
- Fixes for co-op voice chat.
## 0.6.3p2 (2017-11-02) - Build 90
- Melee weapons is now affected by friendly fire in co-op.
- Added voice chat for co-op. Volume can be adjusted in settings > Audio.
- Fixes for Blade Wave not appearing sometimes.
### Added relics ###
- (Melee) Battojutsu : You stay accelerated while the blade is drawn, draining chakra per second. Hitting enemies or deflecting will replenish your chakra.
- (Projectile) Splintering Shurikens : Shuriken deals increased damage and will bounce to an additional target for each shuriken thrown.
- (Pistol/Rifle) Glancing Shots : Each bullet has a chance to keep rebounding, dealing a boosted damage value each time it does.
- (Glove) Exploding Palm : Killing an enemy with an unarmed attack will generate an explosion, dealing a percentage of their max life to nearby enemies.
### Changed relics ###
The following relics had their damage values buffed : Primed Shot, Smoking Barrel, Steel Rain, Power Slide, Phase Walker.
## 0.6.3p1 (2017-11-02) - Build 89
- Added map modifier Royal Guard : The area is occupied by Super Bushi.
- Rebalanced damage on all explosive sources. This is to account for explosions being able to stack on each other.
- Fixed projectiles not interacting with Super Bushi.
## 0.6.3 (2017-11-01) - Build 88
- Added High Risk missions
- Missions in an operation have an increasing chance to roll as High Risk.
- High Risk missions have 2-6 modifiers that cannot be rerolled but grant higher bonuses.
- High Risk missions must be completed in one try and cannot be replayed if failed.
- The 3rd and 4th map modifier now rewards double the bonus. The 5th and 6th map modifier now rewards triple the bonus.
- Raised beacon costs for map modifiers. It now takes a total of 34 beacons to get 6 modifiers instead of 21.
- Added map modifier Fortified : Enemies take less damage from melee attacks
- Added map modifier Bulletproof : Enemies take less damage from bullets and projectiles
- Added map modifier Neural Zombification : Enemies take less damage from body attacks. Aim for the head.
- Added audio option to toggle thumping acceleration sounds when moving
- Elite Bushi is now tinted red color and glows with a red aura (blue skin removed)
- Added Hyper Bushi
- Uses the previous blue skin
- Added mobility - able to leap at the player from distance, or leap out of combat
- Unleashes a pattern of blade waves that split into three
- Fixed Sumo health not being calculated properly
- Increased base Sumo health from 800 to 1000, health per tier from 45 to 50
- Sumo's bionic arm now has a 50% damage reduction. His other body parts have a 25% damage reduction.
- Added player health bars in co-op
- Co-op panel now displays region pings and number of players
- Fixed incorrect display of XP reward after battle (amount was correct)
- Fixed incorrect display of loot values after rerolling map modifiers
- Fixed bullet trail life time not being set correctly
Sairento VR 0.6.2p2
- Added gameplay option to toggle display of loot pickup text
- Separated missions and loadout tab
- Fixed bloom
- Fixed co-op player hitbox issues
## 0.6.2p1 (2017-10-30) - Build 86
- Added gameplay option to never show life/chakra bars.
- Splash screen audio and cemetary stream sounds now respects sound volume setting.
- Consolidated co-op regions to : US, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
- Improvements to Sumo and Daimyo movement.
- Reduced loot drop sizes for less visual clutter.
- Fixed phantom vibrations on glaive, bow, and melee weapons.
- Fixed estimated DPS counter not updating correctly.
- Fixes for AI sliding on occasion.
## 0.6.2 (2017-10-27) - Build 85
- Added Purge mode for co-op.
- Added Corporation map for co-op.
- Added Train map for co-op.
- Fixed bushi blade wave errors in co-op that caused crashes.
- Region select now remembers the last region connected to in the current game session.
Sairento VR 0.6.1p6
- Updated available regions in co-op mode
- Fixed revive colliders blocking player bullets
- Fixed XP not rewarded after completing co-op missions
- Fixed rewards panel header text after completing co-op missions
- Fixed able to rescan missions when lacking the required ducats
## 0.6.1p5 (2017-10-17) - Build 83
- Fixed bug: Chieko head appears randomly when connect to co-op mode
- Fixed players ready state from changing to red upon starting co-op game
## 0.6.1p4 (2017-10-16) - Build 82
- Fixed Wrist menu text(Restart -> Dojo) for single player mode.
- Fixed number of enemies spawning in co-op elimination mode.
- Fixed remaining seconds in co-op survival mode.
- Fixed connect button state after mission complete or left room.
- Fixed Region Select being shown despite being connected.
- Set players to not ready when players returned back to Dojo.
- Set players to not ready when the room settings are changed.
- Display Friendly Fire in Room Details page
## 0.6.1p3 (2017-10-15) - Build 81
- Additional fixes to address game sometimes freezing after Assassination missions
- Fixed bullets being blocked by the player's revive hitboxes
## 0.6.1p2 (2017-10-14) - Build 80
- Added missing XP bonus modifier for Skilled difficulty
- Fixed missing collider in one of the Corporate map's corridors.
- Fixed co-op Survival spawning issue.
## 0.6.1p1 (2017-10-13) - Build 79
- Added map modifier The Lord : Area is occupied by a Daimyo (Elimination/Survival).
- Added map modifier Lord of War : Daimyo has increased life (Assassination).
- Added map modifier Reinforcements : Daimyo has double the number of reinforcements (Assassination).
- Increased base Sumo hp from 450 to 800, and tier increase from 30 to 40.
- Boosted Daimyo's XP value to 1000.
- Difficulty now increases XP gain instead of loot drops, with Shinobi granting +50% XP.
- Increased co-op Elimination enemy count for longer matches.
- Sniper's tracking laser is now a more distinctive orange hue.
- Fixed game freezing on occassion after finishing an Assassination game mode.
- Fixed Sniper's tracking not being broken by the environment after a lockon is acquired.
- Fixed Toro lower body collider.
- Fixed a missing ground collider in cemetary.